Department of Health and Human Services October 7, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Regulation of Tobacco Products; Extension of Comment Period; Correction
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a notice; extension of comment period that appeared in the Federal Register of October 1, 2009 (74 FR 50810). The notice; extension of comment period announced that FDA is extending to December 28, 2009, the comment period for a notice that originally published in the Federal Register of July 1, 2009 (74 FR 31457). The notice; extension of comment period published with an inadvertent error in the DATES section. This document corrects that error.
Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and Fiscal Year 2010 Rates and to the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Rate Year 2010 Rates; Corrections
This document corrects technical errors and typographical errors that appeared in the final rules and interim final rule with comment period published in the Federal Register on August 27, 2009 entitled ``Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and Fiscal Year 2010 Rates and to the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Rate Year 2010 Rates.''
Draft Guidance for Industry: Ingredients Declared as Evaporated Cane Juice; Availability
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of the draft guidance entitled ``Guidance for Industry: Ingredients Declared as Evaporated Cane Juice.'' The intent of this draft guidance is to advise industry of FDA's view that the common or usual name for the solid or dried form of sugar cane syrup is ``dried cane syrup,'' and that sweeteners derived from sugar cane syrup should not be declared on food labels as ``evaporated cane juice'' because that term falsely suggests that the sweeteners are juice.
Interim Final Rules Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Genetic Information in Health Insurance Coverage and Group Health Plans
This document contains interim final rules implementing sections 101 through 103 of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008. These provisions prohibit discrimination based on genetic information in health insurance coverage and group health plans.
HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposes to modify certain provisions of the ``Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information'' (Privacy Rule), issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The purpose of these proposed modifications is to implement section 105 of Title I of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) regarding the privacy and confidentiality of genetic information, as well as to make certain other changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
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